Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilak has been awarded the Booker Prize 2022 for his second novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. The 47-year-old author is the second after Michael Ondaatje to be awarded the award in 1992 for ‘The English Patient’, to win a literary prize of £50,000 (GBP) at a ceremony in London on October 2023.
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. is the story of the photographer of its title, who, after his death in 1990, reaches a place that looks like a visa office in heaven. Not knowing what killed him, Mali has seven moons to approach the people he loves the most. In the meantime, there seems to be a plethora of pictures of the atrocities of the civil war in his hands, which if they come to the fore, will shake the country.
Booker Prize Winner 2024
Booker Prize Winner will be announced soon and the Last year’s Winner Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka on October 2022 Monday has become the Booker Prize Winner in 2022 for the novel. Karunatilaka has been given this award for the book The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. The official verified Twitter handle of the Booker Prize tweeted that we are happy to announce that the winner of the Booker Prize 2022 is Shehan Karunatilaka. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. is the second novel by Shehan Karunatilaka.
The novel is a raucous, poignantly funny satire set in the midst of the deadly devastation of Sri Lanka beset by civil war. Shehan Karunatilaka is one of the best writers in Sri Lanka and apart from his novels, he has also written songs, screenplays, and travel stories. The Sri Lankan author started thinking about it in 2009 after the end of the civil war. Then there was a heated debate over how many civilians were killed and whose fault it was.
Booker Prize 2023 Nominees
| Title | Original language | Author | Author Nationality | Translator | Translator Nationality | UK Imprint |
| Boulder | Catalan | Eva Baltasar | Catalan | Julia Sanches | Brazilian | And Other Stories |
| Whale | Korean | Cheon Myeong-kwan | Korean | Chi-Young Kim | Korean/ American | Europa Editions |
| The Gospel According to the New World | French | Maryse Condé | French | Richard Philcox | British | World Editions |
| Standing Heavy | French | GauZ’ | Ivorian | Frank Wynne | Irish | MacLehose Press |
| Time Shelter | Bulgarian | Georgi Gospodinov | Bulgarian | Angela Rodel | American | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Is Mother Dead | Norwegian | Vigdis Hjorth | Norwegian | Charlotte Barslund | British/Danish | Verso Fiction |
| Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv | Russian | Andrey Kurkov | Ukrainian | Rueben Woolley | British | MacLehose Press |
| The Birthday Party | French | Laurent Mauvignier | French | Daniel Levin Becker | American | Fitzcarraldo Editions |
| While We Were Dreaming | German | Clemens Meyer | German | Katy Derbyshire | British/German | Fitzcarraldo Editions |
| Pyre | Tamil | Perumal Murugan | Indian | Aniruddhan Vasudevan | Indian | Pushkin Press |
| Still Born | Spanish | Guadalupe Nettel | Mexican | Rosalind Harvey | British | Fitzcarraldo Editions |
| A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding | Swedish | Amanda Svensson | Swedish | Nichola Smalley | British | Scribe UK |
| Ninth Building | Chinese | Zou Jingzhi | Chinese | Jeremy Tiang | Singaporean | Honford Star |
Booker Prize 2022 Nominees
| Author | Title | Genre(s) | Country | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shehan Karunatilaka(Winner) | The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida | Novel | Sri Lanka | Sort of Books |
| NoViolet Bulawayo | Glory | Novel | Zimbabwe/USA | Vintage Publishing |
| Percival Everett | The Trees | Novel | USA | Influx Press |
| Alan Garner | Treacle Walker | Novel | England | HarperCollins |
| Claire Keegan | Small Things Like These | Novel | Ireland | Faber & Faber |
| Elizabeth Strout | Oh, William! | Novel | USA | Penguin Books |
What is a Booker Prize?
Like Oscar Award, Film Fare Award, etc. are awarded for outstanding work in the world of cinema, similarly, many awards are given for better contributions to the field of literature. One of them is Booker Prize and now via this article, we will talk about the Booker Prize and its winner. The Booker Prize is awarded jointly by the Booker Company and the British Publishing Association.
This is a prize that is said to be Britain’s biggest prize given in the field of literature, which comes after the Nobel Prizes. Every year great writers who write books are honored with this award. In this, cash is also provided to the winners along with the prize and apart from this many other facilities are provided to them.
History of the Booker Prize
The Booker Prize was started as the Man Booker International Prize and it was initially a biennial award, and there was no stipulation that the literary work must be written in a language other than English. The prize money for the Booker Prize was originally £21,000 and was increased to £50,000 in 2002.
Indian Booker Prize Winners
| Author | Title | Year |
| V.S. Naipaul | In a Free State | 1971 |
| Salman Rushdie | Midnight’s Children | 1981 |
| Aravind Adiga | The White Tiger | 2008 |
| Kiran Desai | The Inheritance of Loss | 2006 |
| Arundhati Roy | The God of Small Things | 1997 |
List of Booker Prize Winners- 1969-2023
| Year | Name of the Author | Book Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1969 | P. H. Newby | Something to Answer For |
| 1970 | Bernice Rubens | The Elected Member |
| 1971 | V. S. Naipaul | In a Free State |
| 1972 | John Berger | G. |
| 1973 | J. G. Farrell | The Siege of Krishnapur |
| 1974 | Nadine Gordimer | The Conservationist |
| 1975 | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Heat and Dust |
| 1976 | David Storey | Saville |
| 1977 | Paul Scott | Staying On |
| 1978 | Iris Murdoch | The Sea, the Sea |
| 1979 | Penelope Fitzgerald | Offshore |
| 1980 | William Golding | Rites of Passage |
| 1981 | Salman Rushdie | Midnight’s Children |
| 1982 | Thomas Keneally | Schindler’s Ark |
| 1983 | J. M. Coetzee | Life & Times of Michael K |
| 1984 | Anita Brookner | Hotel du Lac |
| 1985 | Keri Hulme | The Bone People |
| 1986 | Kingsley Amis | The Old Devils |
| 1987 | Penelope Lively | Moon Tiger |
| 1988 | Peter Carey | Oscar and Lucinda |
| 1989 | Kazuo Ishiguro | The Remains of the Day |
| 1990 | A. S. Byatt | Possession |
| 1991 | Ben Okri | The Famished Road |
| 1992 | Michael Ondaatje | The English Patient |
| 1993 | Roddy Doyle | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha |
| 1994 | James Kelman | How Late It Was, How Late |
| 1995 | Pat Barker | The Ghost Road |
| 1996 | Graham Swift | Last Orders |
| 1997 | Arundhati Roy | The God of Small Things |
| 1998 | Ian McEwan | Amsterdam |
| 1999 | J. M. Coetzee | Disgrace |
| 2000 | Margaret Atwood | The Blind Assassin |
| 2001 | Peter Carey | True History of the Kelly Gang |
| 2002 | Yann Martel | Life of Pi |
| 2003 | DBC Pierre | Vernon God Little |
| 2004 | Alan Hollinghurst | The Line of Beauty |
| 2005 | John Banville | The Sea |
| 2006 | Kiran Desai | The Inheritance of Loss |
| 2007 | Anne Enright | The Gathering |
| 2008 | Aravind Adiga | The White Tiger |
| 2009 | Hilary Mantel | Wolf Hall |
| 2010 | Howard Jacobson | The Finkler Question |
| 2011 | Julian Barnes | The Sense of an Ending |
| 2012 | Hilary Mantel | Bring Up the Bodies |
| 2013 | Eleanor Catton | The Luminaries |
| 2014 | Richard Flanagan | The Narrow Road to the Deep North |
| 2015 | Marlon James | A Brief History of Seven Killings |
| 2016 | Paul Beatty | The Sellout |
| 2017 | George Saunders | Lincoln in the Bardo |
| 2018 | Anna Burns | Milkman |
| 2019 | Margaret Atwood | The Testaments |
| 2020 | Douglas Stuart | Shuggie Bain |
| 2021 | Damon Galgut | The Promise |
| 2022 | Shehan Karunatilaka | The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida |
| 2023 | Paul Lynch | Prophet Song |
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